[capt_noonie]

Agree with the above posters! I have a failed foster Toto who I got when he was 8 years old. He wasn't very good with potty training. We started to get the hang of it, then we moved, so he ended up marking in the new house, so we had to kind of start over. We limited where he could go in the house.We've been here almost two years now. He hasn't had an accident in a long time (many months now) but I have to take him out every few hours. Every once in a while he will go all the way downstairs to his crate where he has a pad and will go in there, but that's happened like two times. Other times if he wakes up before we do, he will go in the shower where we leave the door open since our other one Uni knows to pee in there if she needs to.

I would think that bc the original owner had paper all over the house, the dog does not know where he is allowed to go and where he can't, since he was allowed to go inside and all over. I used to like having indoor trained dogs bc it was easier for me, however the house can still smell of pee, and plus I'd rather take the dogs out myself so I know exactly what is going on. If they haven't peed, why not? Pee too often, UTI? Soft poo, did they eat something, are they sick? No poo for days, obstruction? You get the idea.

I also really really really recommend the poster above who said feed at the same time, walk at the same time. They get used to routine and look forward to it.

I've also found that after the dog gets attached to you, they want to hang out in the same room as you. So after a while the baby gates and such aren't really necessary.